I think this is one of the hardest lessons for liberals to learn:

They’re not gonna pick you. You can’t be “one of the good ones”. They’re going to call you a commie anyways. They’re going to say you were violent anyways. When you “go high”, they lie about and nobody will believe you.

Respectability politics does not work

Me, 1996: No, "Goodtimes" is a hoax, an email can't run computer code or give you a virus

Me, 2000, miserable: Microsoft did something weird and now emails can give you a virus. Bubbleboy is real

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Me, 2010: No, the "Enhance" bit from CSI is not real. There aren't algorithms that can add information to an image.

Me, 2025, miserable: Microsoft did something weird and now the "Enhance" button is real, but the details are fake. Law enforcement IS using it and innocent people will go to prison